Another Klasen Family Tree Update
October 5, 2006
Tonight, I have made another major update to the Klasen Family Tree. This was a pretty easy update to make, but it significantly increased the size of the tree once again.
I concentrated on an area that I hadnt touched before – The Brunks. My sister Kelly is married to Timothy John Brunk and I had zero, zilch, nada on his family. I thought it important that her kids be able to see the family history on both sides. So, I dug in and found a wealth of info on the Brunk lineage.
I was able to trace Tim’s history all the way back to Johann Wehage in the 1650′s. Johan would have been Tim’s great great great great great great grandfather. Obviously, he wasnt a Brunk, but Tim’s grandfather married a Wehage. The majority of this find is related to the Wehage lineage.
After this update, the top 20 surnames in the Klasen Family Tree looks like this:
| [125] | Wehage |
| [57] | Gartner |
| [36] | Komray |
| [32] | Kott |
| [27] | Maskelis |
| [25] | Bittman |
| [24] | Thompson |
| [24] | Traun |
| [19] | Jurgens |
| [18] | Pompu |
| [18] | Brunk |
| [17] | Pomedli |
| [16] | Pechuls |
| [15] | Mitternight |
| [14] | Welle |
| [13] | Burkett |
| [12] | Cummings |
| [12] | Scholz |
| [11] | Karvelis |
| [11] | Korkus |
The surnames of Wehage and Gartner (amongst others) are new with this update and are now dominating the surname list. The surname Brunk has now made the top 20.
The Klasen surname is far down the list, but I hope to break into the top 20 soon. I have uncovered lots of good leads and am one short fact away from expanding my family history significantly. My grandfather Fred Klasen has always been as far back as I could go. I believe I have located his father Nicholas W Klasen. The dates appear correct, the locations appear correct and a sisters name (Mary Klasen) appears correct. I would like one more piece of info so that I can definitively tie them together.
If Nicholas W Klasen is really who I think he is, then I will be able to trace my Klasen family heritage all the way back to Germany and will have a whole set of new leads to pursue.
On a bit of a side note, I am now using Family Tree Maker for my genealogy work and then uploding to the Mr Papa’s World Genealogy site. Everyone can still see the latest family tree on that site using the phpgedview application.
Back to the hunt…
Big Klasen Family Tree Update
October 3, 2006
I have finally gotten around to updating the Klasen Family Genealogy site with some of my recent research.
When I get a bit of spare time, I have been finding little tidbits of information that I have been collecting. Recently, I also made a discovery of another family tree that had a pretty good tie in to my family tree. Last night, I completed the updates to the Mr Papa’s World Genealogy Site.
This was a major update to the family tree. Large numbers of new individuals and surnames have been added. Here is a breakdown on some of the changes:
- Tree went from approximately 393 individuals to approximately 688 individuals
- Tree went from approximately 112 surnames to approximately 210 surnames
- Tree went from approximately 9 generations to 15 generations
The majority of the finds were on the Kott side (my Mother) of the family. A large number of these were not direct descendants, but instead were detailed families of aunts/uncles/brothers/sisters of several of my Mothers ancestor generations.
The surnames with the most additions were:
- Komray
- Maskelis
- Cummings
- Miner
- Shenk
Again, unfortunately, no Klasens were added to the family tree. That seems to be a pretty cold path at the moment. The only Klasen Family relative that I know of is my Grandfather Fred Klasen who died when I was very young. I dont believe he had any brothers or sisters. It also appears that no one living has any clues as to his family heritage either. Never fear, I will keep digging.
After the major update, here is how the surnames and number of families within are represented:
If you want to look at the families within each surname, you can click on the link. A quick glance also reveals that there are only 5 entries for the name Klasen. Maybe I have the tree named wrong 
With Suzanne’s Father Brett taking a genealogy class and having some information to share, I expect some new additions to her side of the family too.
In the meantime, the research continues…
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